Question

Ok so I recall there are some commands you could put in the settings.py file so that basically when you move your django project to another directory it won’t get foo-bar’d up.

I know I could just do this by having a string variable everywhere it mentions the home directory but is there a more elegant way of doing this?

Answer 1

Grab the __file__ global, and use the various functions in os.path on it.

import os.path
SITE_ROOT = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))